The cotton gin was an important invention because b) it inadvertently led to the spread of slavery. This was because the demand for cotton grew even more, due to the cotton gin being produced in masses. The cotton gin is "a machine that quickly and easily separates cotton fibers from their seeds, allowing for much greater productivity than manual cotton separation."
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1 The Mississippi Delta was the richest cotton-farming land in the country ... Planters wanted gang labor, like they had used under slavery, to work the fields; freed
2 Sharecropping is a system where the landlord/planter allows a tenant to use the land ... indebted, requiring the debt to be carried over until the next year or the next.
3 They want a chance to show what good workers they are; their own families, their ... Ed Ayers: Well, there's a lot of negotiating and a lot of worry, and a lot of anger going on. ... you have a contract, and you say right at the outset how much it's going to be, ... So they saw their own land as a means of having a stake in society.
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